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Re: Strange KEEP behavior in linker script

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Denis FERRANTI <denis dot ferranti at st dot com>
Cc: bu-sourceware <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:29:04 +0100
Subject: Re: Strange KEEP behavior in linker script
References: <48205D37.4070102@st.com> <20080506134010.GA15792@caradoc.them.org> <482069B6.5030003@st.com>

Hi Denis,

I see your point about the KEEP() semantic, but then do you see a solution to avoid the discard of the output section (without adding artificial contributions in the linker script)?

Why do you want to keep a completely empty section ?

Cheers
  Nick

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